City dismiss Balotelli reports

15 September 2010 09:00

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Manchester City assistant manager Brian Kidd has described reports that Mario Balotelli is set to be out of action until the end of November as nonsense.
Balotelli was recently sent back to Italy to begin rehabilitation after a knee operation that City hoped he would be back from within a couple of months.
Yet sources in Italy earlier this week claimed the damage was more extensive than City initially thought and that Balotelli would not be ready to play for another 10 weeks at best.
However, now back in Manchester, Balotelli is apparently on course to return exactly as scheduled, with Kidd completely bemused about where the revised comeback date had emerged from.
"There is nothing sinister in this," countered Kidd. "Mario has had the operation, he has come back and is now on with his rehabilitation.
"Wherever these other rumours are coming from, they are nonsense."